Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,726, Jonathan Flagg, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Flagg, Jonathan Christiana
N 14,726
CONTENTS

11,304
New York Albany Christiana Flagg widow widow of Jonathan who died in the year 1813 of Allegany in the State of N.Y. who was in the  the  service  service for the by Captain Thompson of the by the in the Revolution for two years Comm.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 & ending 4 th April 1840
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of April 1852 and sent to J. J. Coombes Present, Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act July 7, 1838. }
J. B. Wrightman Clerk. Recorded in Book 1, Vol. 1, Page 157

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July 13, 1906, L. M. H.

Flagg, Jonathan
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 7, page 65.
Rank: Artificer
Regt.: Colonel Baldwin
Disability: Infirmness and weakness in his breast, spitting of blood, contracted in service.
Date of certificate: Oct. 4, 1792
Monthly allowance: $ 5.50
Arrears due: $250.00
Remarks: Discharged May, 1781.

AW
Aug. 10, 1906
W. J. H.

Flagg, Jonathan
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 115.
Rank : Artificer
Regt : Colonel Baldwin's
Disability : Weakness in his breast, and blood spitting.
Residence : Hartford.
Monthly allowance : $ 5.45
Arrearages : $ 250.00
Remarks : Enlisted April 1, 1777; returned sick in August, 1780.

State of New York Albany County } } On this seventh day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me William Hicks one of the judges of the court of common Pleas of said County of Albany Christian Flagg a resident of the town of Rushford in said County aged Eighty- Eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 7 th 1838. entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Jonathan Flagg who was a sergeant and artificer in the army of the revolution, that in the year 1770, she resided in the town of Hartford in the state of Connecticut she then being about 18 years of age that she then lived a near neighbour to the said Jonathan Flagg and that about this time she was married to Joseph Hens and continued to reside in the same place until the close of the war of the revolution and in the immediate neighbourhood of the said Jonathan Flagg that she was knowing of said Jonathan Flagg's going into the service at or about the commencement of the said war and that she understood from him and others that he was at or in the Battle at Bennington in the state of Vermont and she perfectly well recollects of his leaving home for the army and returning at sundry times and more particularly of his having gone to West Point and of his returning home from there on furlough having been hurt or wounded while at West Point and remaining at home until he got well and again left home for the army, the particular periods of time of service she does not distinctly recollect Neither does she recollect the names of the officers whom he served under but has frequently heard him speak of Col. Willys and Ensign Wattles and that she was some acquainted with Ensign Wattles and has heard him call the said Jonathan Flagg Sergeant Sergeant Flagg.

and she further declares that her first husband the said Joseph C. Hkins died in the year 1782 or 83 and that on the 15 th day of September 1791. She was married to the said Jonathan Flagg he having lost his former wife and then being a widower. at her own house in Hartford aforesaid the marriage ceremony was performed by Reverend Abel Flint pastor of the South Presbyterian society in said — Hartford, and that Benjamin Flagg and Jane Flagg now Jane Flint son and daughter of the said Jonathan Flagg and others were present at the marriage ceremony and she further declares that she lived with the said Jonathan Flagg her husband at Hartford aforesaid until his death that he died on the 6 th . day of February 1813.
and she further declares that she is still the widow of the said Jonathan Flagg and has not since been married.
Sworn and subscribed Christian Hagg on the day and year above written. before me
Wm. Hicks. a Judge of Albany County Courts.
I hereby certify that I am fully satisfied that Christian Flagg. who makes the above declaration. cannot from bodily infirmity attend in Open Court. Pursford March 7 th . 1840. Wm. Hicks a Judge of Albany County Courts.
State of New York — } Albany County - Clerk's Office } ss - I Samuel Van Wickle Clerk of said County do hereby certify that William Hicks Esq e before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date of the same, a Judge of the County Courts in said County of Albany. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signature above pur- -porting to be his is genuine — In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name the 16 th day of March 1840 — Sam d Van Wickle Clerk

State of New York } County of Allegany } ss.
I, Sarah M c Farlan, of Rushford, in the county of Allegany and state of New York, being duly sworn according to law, declare that according to her best knowledge and belief she is the of the age of fifty six years, that she is the daughter and only surviving heir of Jonathan Flagg deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier, and died on the 6th day of February 1813, leaving my mother him surviving by the name of Christiana Flagg, who is also now dead, and that in her lifetime she made an application for a pension, under the act of 7th July 1838, on account of the Revolutionary services of her said husband, but died without receiving it. And that the said Christiana Flagg died at said town of Rushford, county and state aforesaid on the 4th. day of April 1840, leaving myself, the only heir of said Jonathan and Christiana Flagg, surviving, and who still resides in said town of Rushford.
And that she makes this deposition and application for herself, their only surviving heir, to obtain the amount due the said Christiana Flagg at her death as such widow. And that she hereby appoints James G. Austin of the city of Washington, D. C. her true and lawful attorney to take such lawful steps as in his judgment he may deem necessary and proper to obtain the same and to do and receive all and every thing which I might and could do in the premises, and she further declares that her said mother died a
{ widow.
Subscribed and sworn This 10th day of March 1852. before me,
Sarah M c Farlan
C. BROOKS, Justice of the Peace

H. 10th Dec 41 STATE OF NEW YORK, ALLEGANY COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS. I, John J. Rockefeller, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof, do hereby certify, that A. Brooks Esq.  or affidavit taken before whom, the annexed Instrument in Writing was proved or acknowledged, or affidavit taken was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly elected sworn and authorised to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, or affidavit and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that said Instrument is ex- ecuted and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at An- gelica, in said County, this 20th day of March 1852.
John J. Rockefeller
Clerk of Allegany County.

State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss. Hartford December 24. 1839
Then personally appeared before me Isaac Perkins of said Hartford in said County justice of the peace within & for said County duly commissioner & sworn, Benjamin Hagg an inhabitant of said Hartford well & long personally well known to me as a man of truth & veracity & who being by me duly cautioned & sworn to speak the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth, relative to the matter in question. - Did depose, & say that his age is now sixty nine years last October, that his Father's name was Jonathan Hagg, and  who formerly lived in this town & here died many years ago - that his Father's first wife & mother of the deponent died when he the deponent was quite a young man. That when he was a small boy - year not recollect - he was present, & saw his father enter into the army to gether with a number of others, among whom was a Mr. Tucker who never returned, but was according to relation of his father was shot down near to, & fell into his arms while fighting in the ranks. That he well remembers that after an absence of six months or more his father came home on a furlough, being disabled by a severe cut in the leg. That when, after a length of time, his leg got better, he again returned to the army, & as he believes to Fols. Point. He was Sergeant & Officer in the army.
Between forty & fifty years ago his father was again married to Christian Atkins a widow lady, with whom he lived in Hartford of said until his decease, & by whom he had a daughter named Sally. The deponent is unable to state the precise time of this marriage, but is confident that it was about the time he completed his apprenticeship & round thoughts have been about the year 1791. Many of the marriage guests, amongst whom he was one, are now distinctly remembered by him - Isaac Perkins, John Wells, William Wan & others now all dead. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Abel

Flint then & for many years subsequently a clergyman of the Presbyterian or rather Congregational order of Church, & the settled pastor over the South Parish or Society in said town of Hartford.
The Deponent further adds that his age was such, that except the entertainment of his father - his absence - return wounded, & absence again which he knows of his father, service in the Army is very much denied from the relation of his father & those who proceeded over the different in his childhood. Then relations made at the time remain vivid in his recollection, & he consistently believes that his father was in the battle of Bunker Hill - Ticonderoga & other places, that the same day that General M or gan Tucker also killed the man next to him, & many things of a similar character.
That his step mother, she that was the widow Atkins, now lives at P'keepsie in the State of New York, & as he believes with his son Sally or near to her.
And further the Deponent saith not. Subscribed & sworn to by the said Benjamin Flegg Esq. Benj m Flegg
Isaac Perkins Justice of the Peace.

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Isaac Perkins Esq is
and for more than one year last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford — in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Perkins
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and af- fixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 24 th day of Dec r in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 39
And I certify that the signature of said Perkins hereunto annexed is genuine.
Royal R. Hinman Secretary.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14726 Christiana Hagg Widow of Jonathan Hagg Artificer New War
Act: July 7 th 38 Index:—Vol. A , Page 243
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N. York Christian Flagg to Hon. C. L. Beck 26. March 1840.
Act July 1838

6755
Christian Flugg
Act. July 7. 1838
Maria 15. Sept. 1791
Husband died 6 Feb. 1813
Hn. L. C. Peck
W.D.

State of Connecticut; County of Hartford
Y s Town of Hartford this 21 st day of Nov r A D 1839.
I William Whitman, Town Clerk of said Town of Hartford, hereby Certify that there are no Records of Marriages (except one) in this Office, from the year 1735 to the year A D : 1820, when the Statute Law of this State was made & enacted at the May Session of the Legislature, requiring all Marriages to be recorded in the respective Offices of the Town-Clerks in this State: - And I also Certify that there is no record to be found in this office of the marriage of Jonathan Flagg late of said Hartford deceas d & Christian Atkins
Registers Office Nov r 21 st A D 1839
Attest: W. Whitman, Town Clk & Reg r of s d Town of Hartford
Hartford County ss. Hartford, November 21, 1839.
Subscribed and sworn to, before me
Nathaniel Goodwin, Justice of Peace.

X A. J. Lyon Esq. Rushford Albany County New York

Comptroller's Office Hartford Dec r 21 1839
Op Sir Your favor of the 11 th was duly received - I have again examined the Books of assets remaining in this Office particularly all the Pay Rolls from 1775 to 81 & also the Connecticut Line for the name of Jonathan Hagg and I am prepared to say his name is not on record in this Office - at the request of Maj. Seymour & Benjamin Hagg Esq s of this City, a few weeks since, I made a thorough search for Mr. Hagg and could not find the name - except that Samuel Hagg of East Hartford - should I be so fortunate to find him in looking after other names I will give you notice without delay.
A. J. Ligon Esq r
Yours Respectfully Your obedt Servt Henry Rootes Clerk H

JB of Bays March 24. 1840
Sir
I enclose herewith the declaration ss of Mrs Christian Glegg (widow of Johnathan Glegg deceased) who claims a pension on account of services rendered by husband ss
Very Respectfully Yours also Servt L. Beck
Yrs J. Edwards Consr pension

Brief in the case of Christiana Flagg, dec., widow of Jonathan, Albany County and State of New York act 7 July 1838
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Record proof of Service Marriage proved by witnesses who even present
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
J. J. Coombs Present
W. Cole Examining Clerk.

State of New York Albany County } ss
Personally appeared before me at Hegan one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County of Albany I am first and after being duly sworn by me doth on her oath say that she is fifty nine years of age lost December that she was born in the City of Old Hartford in the State of Connecticut and that she resided there for above twenty years that she was well acquainted Jonathan Hagg and Christian Atkins a Widow and that she this Deponent was present at the Marriage of the said John- athan Hagg to the said Christian Atkins in the month of August or Sept in the year 1791 at the House of the said Christian Atkins in Hartford aforesaid the Ceremony was performed by the Reverend Abel Flint Pastor of the South Presbyterian Society in said Town of Hartford and that Benjamin Hagg son of the said John- athan Hagg John Hills and wife Joseph Tucker and wife Anna and Ruth Hills and a number of others were present at the Wedding
And she further says that the said Jonathan Hagg was reported to be a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was considered to be a man of truth and that she has often heard the said Jonathan Hagg talk of being in the army and was called Sergeant Hagg and she further says that she now resides in the Town of Piker in the County of Albany and that the said Jonathan Hagg now lives in the Town of Rushford in the same County and she further says not subscribed before me this 3 day of Jan Day of Feb 1840 A Hegan Justice of the Peace

Personally appeared before me James McFarlin Sawy and well known to me to be a man of truth and sincerity and being duly sworn say that he is well acquainted with Gar- field who signed the foregoing Affidavit in his presence and that she has always sustained a good character for truth and veracity
Sworn and subscribed for Mrs. Fairbairn before me this 3 rd day of Feb 1840 A. Wagon Justice
State of New York Albany County - Clerks Office } I Sand- Van Wickle
Clerk of said County do hereby certify that A. J. Lyon Esq rs before whom the foregoing affidavits purports to have been taken, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified authorized by law to take the same - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and know that the signatures above purporting to be his is genuine - In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this 4 th day of February in the Year 1840 -
Sand- Van Wickle Clerk

Know all men by these presents, That I Sarah McFarlan
of the County of Albany and State of New York have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint, THOMAS EWING, Jr.  James G. Austin , of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever,  Examine all papers on file at the Pension office in the City of Washington in relation to the claim of my late mother, Christiana Flagg - and to prosecute said claim for a pension, on account of the Revolutionary services of my father, the late Jonathan Flagg, deceased.
and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, by virtue of these presents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
23 d day of March 185 2 .
Sarah McFarlan
State of New York County of Albany } to wit:
On this 23 d day of March 185 2 , Sarah
McFarlan personally appeared before me a Sister of the Peer in and for the County aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her  his act and deed for the purposes therein expressed.
Chapman, Brooks, J. P.
State of _____ County of _____ } to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That _____ Esq., before whom the above acknowledgment was made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the _____ Court, for the County aforesaid, this _____ day of _____ 185 ____.
Clerk.

State of New York } ss County of Allegany }
Rebecca Scott a resident of Pike,
Wyoming County and state of New York, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she was well acquainted with Christiana Flagg, widow of Jonathan Flagg deceased, that she knew the said Jonathan Flagg, that he died on the 6th day of February 1813. leaving the above named Christiana Flagg his widow him surviving, and that the said Christiana Flagg, in her lifetime made application for a pension under the act of 7th July 1838, for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her said late husband, and that the said Christiana Flagg died at the town of Rushford in the county of Allegany and state of New York, on the 4th day of April 1840. Without (as she has been informed and verily believes) receiving such Pension - And that at the time of the death of the said Christiana Flagg aforesaid, she left Sarah McFarlan, who was the only heir of the said Jonathan & Christiana Flagg, surviving, and who is now of the age of 56 years, and resides in said town of Rushford.
Subscribed and sworn this 23 day of March 1852. before me, and I certify that I believe the above named Rebecca Scott is a credible person. Chapman Brooks Justice of the Peace
Rebecca Scott

Jonathan Flagg dead Christiana Flagg widow dead
Sarah McFarlan only surviving child Application - Revolutionary Pension act 7 th July, 1838
J. J. Coombs Present
✓ No 6755 Christiana Flagg, dec d N.Y.
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1791
Her dead 1813
Adm rs Lgts Art y Arty $240 per annum, Commg 11 March 1836 & ending 11 th April 1840 payable to
Sarah McFarlan only surviving child
(See roll of Art y Officers, vol 2 1777 for War Committee Aug st 1780 Albany)
J. J. Coombs Present

State of New York County of Allegany ss. I L. P. Wetherby County Judge of the County aforesaid, and performing the duties of the Office of Surrogate therein, do hereby Certify that at a Surrogates Court held in & for the said County on this eighth day of April 1852 It was proven to the satisfaction of said court, that Jonathan Flagg who was reputed to have been a Rev- olutionary soldier, died on the 6 th day of February 1813 leaving Christiana Flagg a widow him surviv- ing, and that the said Christiana Flagg in her life time made application for a Pension on account of the services of her said late husband in the War of the Revolution. That the said Christiana Flagg died at the town of Rushford County of Allegany State of New York on the 4 th day of April 1840, leaving but one child her & her said late husband surviving, and whose Name is Sarah McFarlan who is now a resid- ent of the town of Rushford Allegany County State of New York, and is above the age of twenty one Years, and that her applic- ation for the Amount of Pension due her deceased Mother at the time of her death is hereto annexed
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto subscribed My Name and affix- ed My Official Seal at Angelica in said County this 8 th day of April 1852
L P Wetherby County Judge & Surrogate
I certify that the words "of Pension" were omitted before in the above before the same was signed L P Wetherby Judge etc.

Christiana Flagg
wid of
Jonathan Flagg
Act 1836.
Insured N.Y.
M c Cole

Know all men by these presents, That I A. J. Lyon of the County of Albany and State of New York have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint, THOMAS EWING, Jr., of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever,  under me and by my authority, as the duly appointed and sole attorney of Christian Flagg, widow of Jonathan Flagg, to prosecute and present her claim for a pension under the act of 4th July 1836, and to receive and transmit to me such Pension Certificate or certificates as may be issued
and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and what- soever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, by virtue of these presents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28 day of Jan. 185 2 .
A. J. Lyon
State of New York } to wit: County of Albany }
On this 28 , day of Jan. 185 2 ,
A. J. Lyon personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein expressed.
R. B. Lansing J. P.
State of _____ } to wit: County of _____ }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That _____ Esq., before whom the above acknowledgment was made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the _____ Court, for the County aforesaid, this _____ day of _____
185_____
Clerk.